Vocabulary
1
Choose the synonym of the word: CONCISE
(A) Short and clear ✓
(B) Long
(C) Confusing
(D) Incorrect
Vocabulary
2
Choose the synonym of the word: APLOMB
(A) Confidence ✓
(B) Doubt
(C) Anger
(D) Surprise
Vocabulary
3
Choose the synonym of the word: AMIABLE
(A) Friendly ✓
(B) Strict
(C) Aggressive
(D) Mysterious
Vocabulary
4
Choose the synonym of the word: RECONDITE
(A) Deep/obscure ✓
(B) Easy
(C) Popular
(D) Wrong
Vocabulary
5
Choose the synonym of the word: ABOLISH
(A) Establish
(B) Eradicate ✓
(C) Support
(D) Delay
Vocabulary
6
Choose the synonym of the word: DILIGENT
(A) Lazy
(B) Careful and hardworking ✓
(C) Fast
(D) Uncertain
Vocabulary
7
Choose the synonym of the word: IMMENSE
(A) Tiny
(B) Huge ✓
(C) Slow
(D) Unknown
Vocabulary
8
Choose the antonym of the word: OSTENTATIOUS
(A) Grand
(B) Magnificent
(C) Unobtrusive ✓
(D) Lofty
💡 Answer: Unobtrusive (modest, not showy)
Vocabulary
9
Choose the antonym of the word: BRITTLE
Options not recalled by students
💡 Answer: Flexible / Ductile / Resilient
Vocabulary
10
What is the meaning / correct usage of the word: RATTLE
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Vocabulary
11
What is the meaning / correct usage of the word: WREATH
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Vocabulary
12
What is the meaning / correct usage of the word: WRATH
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Vocabulary
13
What is the meaning of the word: BENEVOLENT
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💡 Meaning: Kind, generous, well-meaning
Vocabulary
14
Choose the correct usage of the word: EBULLIENT
(Question was related to the Director of a company)
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💡 Meaning: Cheerful, full of energy, enthusiastic
Vocabulary
15
Choose the correct usage of the word: FLIPPANT
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💡 Meaning: Not showing serious or respectful attitude
Vocabulary
16
Choose the synonym of the word: MORTIFY
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💡 Synonyms: Embarrass, humiliate, shame
Vocabulary
17
Choose the correct antonym/synonym combination for: FRISKY / FECUND / BARREN
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💡 Frisky = Playful | Fecund = Fertile | Barren = Infertile (Antonym of Fecund)
Idioms
18
To throw light on means:
(A) To shine a torch
(B) To explain clearly ✓
(C) To burn something
(D) To expose to sunlight
Idioms
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By leaps and bounds means:
(A) Slowly
(B) Very fast ✓
(C) In small steps
(D) Without interest
Idioms
20
Burn the midnight oil means:
(A) Waste time
(B) Work late at night ✓
(C) Sleep early
(D) Burn lamps
Idioms
21
What does the idiom "Black and blue" mean?
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💡 Meaning: Badly bruised / beaten
Grammar
22
Voice Change: "Every Monday, she paid him rent" — Change to passive voice
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💡 Answer: "Every Monday, he was paid rent by her." OR "Every Monday, rent was paid to him by her."
Grammar
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Narration: Direct to Indirect speech conversion question
Sentence & options not recalled by students
Grammar
24
Phrasal Verbs: Match the following — Phrasal verbs of "cut" and "break"
Options not recalled by students
Grammar
25
Phrasal Verbs: "His folly will ______ his ruin."
(A) bring in
(B) bring out
(C) bring about ✓
(D) bring up
💡 "Bring about" = to cause something to happen
Grammar
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Phrasal Verbs: Choose the correct usage — laid off, laid down, lay up, laid out
Sentence & options not recalled by students
Grammar
27
Preposition: Quarrel ______ (over / for / in / about)
(A) over
(B) for
(C) in
(D) about ✓
💡 "Quarrel about" or "Quarrel over" — both are correct, but "about" is most commonly used in standard tests.
Grammar
28
Spelling: Choose the correct spelling of "ingredients"
Options not recalled by students
Grammar
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Word Form: "I am ______ to complete my work today."
(determine / determined / determination)
(A) determine
(B) determined ✓
(C) determination
One-Word
30
What is the meaning of PHILOLOGY?
"Study of history and languages"
Options not recalled by students
💡 Philology = The study of language in written historical sources
One-Word
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Question related to the word: AFFILIATELY
Options not recalled by students
Reading Comp.
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Passage 1: Unseen passage about Sambalpur's weaving, handloom, animal, ikat work, Hirakud Dam
Sub-questions from this passage:
Q: "bats hanging like dark fruits" — identify the literary device
(hyperbole / alliteration / simile / personification)
💡 Answer: Simile (uses "like")
Q: What attracts the tourists?
(the people that let it thrive)
Q: Main occupation of Sambalpur people?
(weaving & textile / rearing)
💡 Answer: Weaving & textile
Q: Which river flows there?
💡 Answer: Mahanadi
Reading Comp.
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Passage 2: Unseen passage about an 85-year-old brother and narrator's conversation about his historical building-like house
Sub-questions from this passage:
Q: What was NOT in the conversation?
(building a new house)
Q: Why did the friend refuse to demolish the building?
(because it was a historical building)
Q: From this, the friend can be called as an ______
(antiquist)
💡 Answer: Antiquist (one who studies/values antiquities)
Reading Comp.
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Passage 3: Charles Darwin related question — Arrange the sentences
Options (sentences) not recalled by students
Literary Devices
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Match the following: Match examples with literary devices
(mainly — hyperbole / alliteration / personification / simile)
2-3 questions of this type were asked. Specific examples not recalled.